Crank Back On Roller
Georgian House, 230 pp, $16.50
War
Profound and Lyric
by Brian Dibble •
‘Crank back on roller, belt left front ...’ So begins the sequence. Stuart’s novel, the fifth in a series of six called The Conjuror’s Years, depicts Colin of Drought Foal and Wedgetail View following the instructions for preparing his Vickers gun to fire against the Vichy French in the 1941 AIF invasion of Syria.
Three things are specially striking about this deftly written book which shows, once again, Stuart’s knowledge that the art is to hide the art.
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